Re-establishment and Employment (Allowances and Loans--Agricultural Occupations) Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES.

1953. No. 83.

REGULATIONS UNDER THE RE-ESTABLISHMENT AND EMPLOYMENT ACT 1945-1953.*.

I, THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL in and over the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby make the following Regulations under the Re-establishment and Employment Act 1945-1953.

Dated this seventh day of September, 1953.

W. J. Slim

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

Minister of State for the Interior.

Amendments of the Re-establishment and Employment (Allowances and Loans—Agricultural Occupations) Regulations. 

1. Regulation 1a of the Re-establishment and Employment (Allowances and Loans—Agricultural Occupations) Regulations is repealed and the following regulation inserted in its stead:—

Definition.

“1a. In these Regulations, ‘the Act’ means the Re-establishment and Employment Act 1945-1953.”.

Interest on loans.

2. Regulation 4 of the Re-establishment and Employment (Allowances and Loans—Agricultural Occupations) Regulations is amended by adding at the end thereof the following sub-regulation:—

“(3.) Where—

(a) an eligible person who has received a loan in respect of an agricultural occupation under Division 3 of Part VI. of the Act;

(b) the terms and conditions as determined by the prescribed authority on which the loan has been made provide for the repayment of the loan by instalments of the principal, or interest on, the loan; and

(c) the eligible person is in arrears of an instalment, the arrears of instalment shall bear interest at the rate of three and three-quarters per centum per annum.”.

3.—(1.) After regulation 4 of the Re-establishment and Employment (Allowances and Loans–Agricultural Occupations) Regulations the following regulations are added:—

Extension of Regulations to Korea and Malaya members.

“5.—(1.) In this regulation, ‘eligible person’ means an eligible person within the meaning of Divisions 3 and 4 of Part VI. in their operation as extended by Division 1 of Part XI of the Act.

 

* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on , 1953.

  Statutory Rules 1945, No. 182, as amended by Statutory Rules 1946, Nos. 5 and 180; and 1948, No. 74.

3383.—Price 3d. 10/30.7.1953.

“(2.) The operation of the provisions of these Regulations extends to, and in relation to, eligible persons within the meaning of this regulation and, for the purposes of those provisions in their extended operation—

(a) a reference to an eligible person shall be read as a reference to an eligible person within the meaning of this regulation;

(b) a reference to Divisions 3 and 4 of Part VI. of the Act shall be read as a reference to those provisions in their operation as extended by Division 1 of Part XI. of the Act; and

(c) a reference to any loan made under Part III. of the Act to a trainee under the Commonwealth Reconstruction Training Scheme shall be read as a reference to a loan under a Commonwealth scheme of vocational training for members of the Forces within the meaning of section 139 of the Act or for widows of those members.

Period within which application for re-establishment loans is to be made — Korea and Malaya members.

“6. A loan shall not be made or a guarantee given in respect of an agricultural occupation under Division 3 of Part VI. of the Act in its operation as extended by Division 1 of Part XI. of the Act unless the application for the loan or guarantee is made

(a) within five years after—

(i) the date on which the applicant, or where the applicant is a widow, her late husband, was discharged;

(ii) the date of the termination or completion of any training that the applicant, or where the applicant is a widow, the applicant or her late husband, received under a Commonwealth scheme of vocational training for members of the Forces within the meaning of section 139 of the Act or for widows of those members; or

(iii) the date of the termination or completion of any vocational training that the applicant, or, where the applicant is a widow, the applicant or her late husband, has undertaken without expense to the Commonwealth; or

(b) where the applicant is a widow whose husband died while serving with the Defence Force or died without making an application in relation to which any of the sub-paragraphs of the last preceding paragraph applies before the expiration of the period within which he could have applied if he had lived—before—

(i) the date of the expiration of a period of one year after the death of her husband; or

(ii) the date on which the youngest of her children (if any) attains the age of six years,

whichever is the latest.”.

(2.) This regulation shall be deemed to have come into operation on the eleventh day of January, 1952.

By Authority: L. F. Johnston, Commonwealth Government Printer, Canberra.